ROME (HRNW) – Italy on Wednesday shut all stores except for pharmacies and food shops in a desperate bid to halt the spread of a coronavirus that has killed 827 in the country in just over two weeks.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the latest wave of restrictions in a dramatic appeal to the nation that came with the country of 60 million battling its biggest crisis in generations.
“Thank you to all Italians who make sacrifices. We are proving to be a great nation,” Conte said in his nine-minute evening prime time address to the nation.
Italians have watched ever tighter restrictions slowly eat away at the very fabric of everyday life.
An existing clampdown on public gathering and basic travel had already emptied streets and shuttered everything from churches to restaurants.
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